06.01.08
Links 01/06/2008: Lots on GNU/Linux Laptops, New Eye Candy (Compiz-Fusion and KDE4)
GNU/Linux Laptops
- Is this the cheapest Linux laptop on the planet?
As for the Elonex One itself, it comes with a 300MHz LNX Code 8 Mobile processor, and a Debian-based distribution. Add to that 128MB RAM, 1GB Flash and a detachable screen and there is no denying that you get a lot of Linux laptop for not very much money at all.
- Small PCs big news as economy slows
Asustek Computer, which makes the runaway success Eee PC, will display new, wider-screen models that allow users to do everything from storing video clips in shock-proof flash memory and surfing the Web in coffee shops.
- Intel’s new UMPC, the Classmate, takes on the XO
Prices will vary accordingly, so the best I can do here is provide a ballpark unit price: Expect Classmates equipped with a Linux-based OS to cost somewhere around $399 and Windows machines to cost about $469.
- Ubiquitous Linux, or, how to become a household commodity
Distros
- Reasons to be Cheerful #3: Ubuntu
- PCLinuxOS 2008.1 GNOME installed
- Going Ubuntu
- UBUNTU Studio Revisited
More GNU/Linux Stuff
- Plat’Home : The Palm Size Linux Server
- [GNU/Linux] Flash Uses The GPU
A much clamored-for feature (right after native 64-bit, wmode/transparency, and V4L2) is Flash GPU (graphical processing unit) acceleration, sometimes founded in a belief that it’s a magic solution for making things fast without any side effects or ill consequences. I just wanted to make it known that the Adobe Flash Player is GPU accelerated…
- [KDE] 4.1 times more Prettyness
Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you the brand new shiny Plasma theme that will be used for KDE 4.1:
Here you can see the new applet and krunner backgrounds, the new panel, our brand-new carbon fiber clock and some items that once upon a time weren’t themed at all, like the pager and the taskbar.
- Compiz and Compiz Fusion 0.7.6 out in wild
In the new features there is now a new “Static Switcher” that shows thumbnails of all the open windows and moves caret instead of thumbnails. Place plugin received a rewrite that enhances it’s multi-display support. Gtk-window-decorator is now accesessibilit(a11y) sensitive and ezoom plugin now has area zoom, helping people with disabilities to work on computer with ease.
Eye-candy? Full sphere!! I’ll let a picture talk for itself.
F/OSS
- Freedom and privacy in the cloud: a call for action
- Ruby on Rails Performance Options Grow
- Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers
- Linux Outlaws 40 – Software Freedom, Lawsuits & Poker
In this special episode, we talk to Bradley M. Kuhn of the FSLC & FSC about software freedom, litigation against open source developers, the future and thread of web services that aren’t open, the AGPL and poker.
Microsoft
- Is Microsoft Repeating Vista Mistakes with Windows 7?
- Bill Gates doesn’t play monopoly? Laugh? I nearly died
- Microsoft has lost its grip on the ecosystem
- Microsoft France bans wine marketing
Direct link (May 2006)
